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Spiralheart, a community within the Reclaiming tradition, is launching Alchemeet, a once-a-month “Pagan meeting-of-minds that takes place online and is available to anyone who would like to join.” Quote: “The views presented in Alchemeet are designed to spark creative discussion in a safe environment and may be controversial by nature. These views do not represent the Spiralheart community as a whole and indeed may not even be the opinion of the host. Instead, the topics are meant to be edgy mental exercises in spirituality and to foster online community each month. Our hope is that you may feel infused or inspired to take these discussions and allow them to influence your daily practice—or not. It’s up to you.” The first talk will be held on November 5th, hosted by Boneweaver, on “The Necessity of Cutting Off One’s Legs In Spiritual Work.” Quote: “I’ll explain my symbolic missing legs and what I’m willing to sacrifice for my deep work—and why!—and then I’d like to hear from you. Are you willing to be brave for the spiritual realizations you seek?” Details on how to join the Google Hangout-based discussion/symposium can be found, here.

Ed Hubbard, known for his work with Witch School, has launched an ambitious fund drive to create a “Common Book of Wicca and Witchcraft” that, once created, would exist in the public domain for anyone to access. Quote: “In the legal world of Copyrights, Trademarks, and Digital Rights, we are facing a more restrictive future of written, audio and video based materials, and how they may be used. This bears directly on our freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of use. In order to avoid these restrictions, I see the Common Book of Wicca and Witchcraft as able to bypass most of the problems with copyright issues. This will give my fellow Wiccans, Witches, and Seekers the freedom to teach, with quality materials, the basics of our faith.”

Holli Emore, Executive Director of Cherry Hill Seminary, has some important things to say about sex, lies, and cults. Quote: “Wherever secrecy and opacity trump community values, whenever we think that it is more important to hide ourselves or our group from the rest of the world, dysfunction can then grow rampantly, like black mold in a damp basement.”

Check out this San Francisco Informer interview with Pagan musician Sharon Knight. Quote: “Music is my spiritually; it’s how I make sense of our world. We as humans create order out of chaos. We create meaning where there isn’t any in accordance with what our ideals are. Architecture tells us how we order things. The distances between intervals in music can express a myriad of emotions. Those happen within us and then as we put music to it, it makes sense out of the chaos that is life.”

Jason Pitzl-Waters

Thank You Jason for the mention, and yes it is ambitious project, the most I have ever tried. It is all about making it easier to access at least basic information, wherever needed. Today wherever needed is global. Thank you for sharing with your readers.